1956 Winter Olympics / Participant (Japan)

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Japan took part in the VII Winter Olympics in 1956 in the Italian municipality of Cortina d'Ampezzo with a delegation of ten athletes in five disciplines, all of them men. The only medal win went to the ski racer Chiharu Igaya , who secured the silver medal in the slalom. In the medal table, Japan was the eleven best nation.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was Hiroshi Yoshizawa , who competed in both ski jumping and Nordic combined. In ski jumping he finished 13th, in Nordic combined he could not finish the competition.

Participants by sport

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Taketsugu Asazaka

  500 m: 22nd place (43.1 s)

  1500 m: 21st place (2: 15.4 min)

  5000 m: 28th place (8: 23.6 min)

  10,000 m: 22nd place (17: 35.3 min)

• Yoshitaki Hori

  500 m: 17th place (42.8 s)

  1500 m: 23rd place (2: 15.9 min)

  5000 m: 46th place (8: 53.5 min)

• Kiyotaka Takabayashi

  500 m: 30th place (43.6 s)

• Shinkichi Takemura

  500 m: 11th place (42.4 s)

  1500 m: 36th place (2: 18.3 min)

• Yoshiyasu Gomi

  1500 m: 39th place (2: 19.2 min)

  5000 m: 27th place (8: 22.2 min)

  10,000 m: 23rd place (17: 35.9 min)

Nordic combination

• Koichi Satō

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 33rd place (384,900)

• Hiroshi Yoshizawa

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): competition not finished

Alpine skiing

Men

• Chiharu Igaya

  Departure: disqualified

  Giant slalom: 11th place (3: 15.6 min)

  Slalom: Silver (3: 18.7 min)

• Susumu Sugiyama

  Downhill: 28th place (3: 39.1 min)

  Giant Slalom: 45th place (3: 40.8 min)

  Slalom: 33rd place (4: 17.0 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Tatsuo Miyao

  15 km: 48th place (56:59 min)

  30 km: 28th place (1:55:40 h)

  50 km: 25th place (3:25:47 h)

Ski jumping

• Koichi Satō

  Normal hill: 39th place (178.5)

• Hiroshi Yoshizawa

  Normal hill: 13th place (205.0)

Web links

• Japan at the 1956 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )